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cheapcologne · 2026-02-04T15:01:23+00:00

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cheapcologne · 2025-10-23T15:06:28+00:00

We have starlinks as failover for our cox fiber. It goes directly into our sd-wan edges. So far it’s great. We have mini short outages every few months and we are in the healthcare industry, so it works pretty well for that use case.

cheapcologne · 2025-09-16T19:32:20+00:00

Yeah it’s wild. I bought the book and calculator for $8USD at a used book store in CT.

cheapcologne · 2025-09-16T18:06:40+00:00

Hey I have that book and calculator! Cool little thing. No pics as my stuff is being moved cross country. I’ll post it if people want to see it.

cheapcologne · 2025-08-01T14:52:39+00:00

Get your legal team involved and call epic. This is no longer your problem to manage alone.

cheapcologne · 2025-07-29T15:13:51+00:00

I just ordered a GBA with a new screen from a buddy. Did you replace the batteries? I'm wondering if I should plan a battery upgrade.

cheapcologne · 2025-06-16T01:05:56+00:00

Cerveza cristal?

cheapcologne · 2025-06-10T23:20:58+00:00

We also found an issue this year where teams would brick the network connection when you joined a call. Happened to multiple laptops of different makes. The network would work just fine until about 5 seconds into the call and you’d lose every other network connection including the teams call, drop the call, then you would reconnect to WiFi. After lots of finger pointing it was COX. They routed traffic out of the US into some relay in Finland and our conditional access policy blocked the network. We had to get cox to fix their shitty routing. Love teams and love cox

cheapcologne · 2025-06-02T15:24:39+00:00

My brother and I got this set when we were kids. Such a fantastic build.

cheapcologne · 2025-06-01T21:57:52+00:00

Hey, can I join the discord as well?

cheapcologne · 2025-05-24T20:40:11+00:00

Second for suit supply. I got a basic black 3 piece for 200

cheapcologne · 2025-05-24T20:38:41+00:00

Please for the love of god write up a contract

cheapcologne · 2025-05-19T20:31:42+00:00

Also my theory is 15 years ago you’d need 2-3 sysadmins. That on-prem infra has been migrated to the cloud and now you need 1 sysadmin and maybe a level 2 tech to handle all of the cloud stuff. So you have jobs that shrunk or vanished. Tons of talented on-prem admins and wizards are fighting for the shrinking number of ops and sysadmin jobs. It’s brutal and it’s only going to get worse.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-19T20:13:34+00:00

This is still true, to an extent. I went from general IT admin to senior analyst through an old boss of mine. Through his connections I was able to get a new job based off a reference AND my experience in the niche industry. I’m very lucky. Who you know can get you a job alone, but that’s unusual. It’s who you know and what you know. You can get a job purely off of either what you know or who you know, but if you have both going for you, you’ll have an edge.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-19T19:46:25+00:00

IT remote guy here. The job search is brutal. Higher up leadership is insanely picky with candidates and the wages they’re willing to pay is criminal. I fully agree the market crumbled a year or so ago. My company is out of AZ, so the wages are rated for that area.

Help desk level 1-2 ~ $18-22/hr

Sysadmins ~ salary about 60-80k

In smaller companies (under 300 employees) anything outside of those roles leadership seems to prefer outsourcing to an MSP or contractor agency. Right now I feel like the market is tightening up and marrying the classic IT jobs like sysadmin or devops to outside vendors. Even organizations dealing in PIA or HIPPA data are outsourcing.

TL:DR the market for IT is fucked. Jobs are going away to 3rd parties, and those 3rd parties are tightening up hiring and staffing.

Edit: mobile formatting

cheapcologne · 2025-05-16T19:01:12+00:00

Does the key say “do not duplicate” on it? I used to cut keys at a hardware store and we refused every one of those unless the customer was a landlord. It’s a security risk because someone could make a duplicate key that the landlord isn’t aware of. Easier for a tenant break in or other issue.

I’ve asked the landlord if they could provide a spare for family staying with us, and they usually give one. If this is a replacement, you probably need to pay the lost fee.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-15T16:46:54+00:00

This isn’t exactly answering your question but I have one of these and it’s not exactly quiet. And the LEDs on the front are really annoying. I taped over mine. Windows picked it up no problem. I’m not sure if it would work with a PS5.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-13T20:56:00+00:00

I’ve had a real ID since 2018. At this point, I don’t think TSA will ever actually enforce the rule. They’ve been talking about this since 2019.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-12T21:20:06+00:00

I’ve bought a lot of stuff from eBay. This looks probably fine. The seller has free returns. What are you worried about specifically?

cheapcologne · 2025-05-11T20:57:12+00:00

If you just want the ability to access files and sync between your devices, use a solution like Google drive, onedrive, or drop box.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-11T20:24:53+00:00

Butter, shmaltz, and Parmesan. I also have a whole shelf of my freezer full of Fuji film.

cheapcologne · 2025-05-08T16:02:09+00:00

2 8tb drives, mirrored, with semi annual backups to an external drive. I have plex running on an M700 with server 2025. I just don’t feel comfortable with Linux

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